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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:11:08 -0700
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Subject: Re: major differences with Cassandra
From: Time Less <timelessness@gmail.com>
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HBase is run by persons who understand (or are willing to hear) the
operational requirements of distributed databases in high-volume
environments, whereas the Cassandra project isn't.

Talks about technical differences are really noise, because they're entirely
theoretical. When viewed with this knowledge, a lot of the disagreements,
flamewars, and shoutfests begin to make sense.

As of today, I'm unaware of any major feature Cassandra claims that it
actually delivers outside of installations run by the developers themselves.
Specifically: multi-DC, hinted handoff, compaction, dynamic cluster resizing
are all fail. The developers will adamantly claim all such features work
just fine. Good luck getting any of it to work in YOUR environment.

In stark contrast, I am intimately familiar with at least one large HBase
installation run by non-developers (at Mozilla).

Disclaimers: I am very familiar with the Cassandra product internals,
developers, history, and community. I am less familiar with HBase. I might
therefore have a rosy view of the HBase community based on ignorance. Also,
in a low-volume environment, pretty much anything works. Including
Cassandra. Or anything else. Any NoSQL. Any SQL. Pick whatever you want and
run with it.


On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <
otis_gospodnetic@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I don't have the URL handy, but just the other day I read some
> Cassandra/HBase
> blog post where Cassandra was described as having no SPOF, but somebody
> left
> some very "strong comments" calling out that and a few other claims as
> false.
>  Ah, I remember, here is the URL:
>
> http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2010/05/18/riak-and-cassandra-and-hbase-oh-my/
>
>
> Otis----
> Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch
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>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Jeff Zhang <zjffdu@gmail.com>
> > To: user@hbase.apache.org
> > Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 1:34:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: major differences with Cassandra
> >
> > HBase do not have super column family.
> >
> > And I can list the following major  difference between hbase and
> cassandra (
> > welcome any supplement) :
> >
> > 1.  HBase is master-slave architecture, while cassandra has no master,
> and
> > you  can consider it as p2p structure, and it has no single point of
> failure.
> > 2.  HBase is strong consistency while cassandra is eventual consistency
> > (although  you can tune it to be strong consistency)
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:26  PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I was hoping some has experiences with  both Cassandra and HBase.
> > >
> > > What are the major differences between  Cassandra and HBase?
> > >
> > > Does HBase have the concept of  ColumnFamilies and SuperColumnFamilies
> like
> > > Cassandra?
> > >
> > >  Where in the wiki does it go over designing a data  model?
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks!
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best  Regards
> >
> > Jeff Zhang
> >
>


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